good politicians do something to. put themselves on the lawn they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to be brits. that's it like to be for us this is what the forecast three in the morning can't be good that i'm interested always in the waters of my. question. a murder was never great was founded on the rape in the murder. nothing changed so we said oh response to these situations that we're dealing with. people get shot every day she used to say people kill each other blood for killing children. so it was just no way that people are going to just sit back

and allow children to be shot down by law enforcement. this country doesn't work for us it doesn't function for us. this is can't be happening in america we call from the streets we've got to deal with life this is the reason i have to ride like this is the reason. so here now this new attempt at a global unit of account of local currency big line that will be controlled by people not any subtle government so it has the chance to do what's called they'll do to escape the intricacies of the central bankers and the ph d. wielding economists. welcome

back britain has a brutal history with congo supporting the military dictatorship of mobutu says a second before the kabila years but in the seventy two hours it has appeared to become clear that the dealer see may be facing the end of the kabila dinnerstein joseph kabila whose father the wrong was infamously late for che guevara's african relations in the one nine hundred sixty s. he has said he won't contest elections in mainstream media though headlines are

about an outbreak of ebola daniel mccabe's new film this is congo follows four characters a whistleblower a patriotic military commander a mineral dealer and a displaced tailor to give a different perspective to see similar pain is the one of the most resource rich and poor countries in the world over to daniel mccabe and deputy editor sebastian baca so can you stop by to tell me how you came to make this is congo well initially i was a news photographer based in east africa my first time in congo was in two thousand and eight covering this was coming we noticed the sea and the people or so that experience really kind of sparked me to dig deeper in my research behind. kind of revealed a lot of holes in the narrative that were often told about the congo so that's kind of the genesis of the project begin there and it was about identifying the root causes of the conflict i'm really trying to find a good narrative thread that could flush them out and the female character. the

congo is seen around the world it's like a place with lots of sexual violence against women think of the high of one of conflicts it was nearly fifty breaks a day and she chose a very strong she's actually built her own business she's providing for children why did you start to how did you find with all the characters you know i wanted to challenge. the views were typically given on the outs. about congo and i want to characters that i feel the viewers could identify with in mom romance is case she's she's out there fighting for the survival of her children and trying to educate them which i think is extremely universe and we can all relate with that so that's kind of what drew me into her you know often we think of a smuggler in congo thinking of some big bad nefarious guy but but she just has this this warmth in this presence where when you hold her you just kind of melt in her arms so that that kind of caught me off guard and and i think it kind of

catches viewers off guard so it's a great great way to show the female element in co which often is as you said is viewed in in this way where it's. we're looking at a lot of sexual violence a lot of rape used as a weapon of war so i wanted to. not stay away from that as a narrative because it's such a tragic an important part of the conflict but it's i think in the overall context the way the way we were constructing the film it's a bit of a byproduct of the conflict and we really wanted to focus in on the root causes of the conflict and and not you know that there's so many confusing variables. i think mama romance helps kind of clear that up a bit what did you see is the root cause of the conflict while there's. there are so many causes it's tough to pinpoint one obviously corruption is at the top of the

list you know when when you have the government code was incredibly corrupt and the government military is balkanized where you have these individual commanders kind of operating autonomously kind of mafioso way so obviously that you know it's going to be difficult to move forward in that country with that system in place so. in terms of trying to come up to a solution find that solution corruptions at the top of the list and also another thing that people have a lot about the congo is also have a huge wealth of minerals and you hear about children going to mine these minerals the base you going to see farms around the world sure i mean congo has i think an estimated twenty four trillion dollars worth of untapped resources and in addition to cobol you have consider right gold diamonds uranium i mean they've they've got it all it's an incredibly mineral resource rich country. terms of children you know

want to try and look at what that you know we see it as a certain thing where we often we think of conflict minerals we think of children mining in and this injustice but but i think we also need to look at is those resources also are providing jobs and not that i'm advocating for child labor by any means but in a country with with no infrastructure como's the so. of western europe and they've got three hundred miles of paved roads education's a huge issue people are dying of mosquito bites you know so so while those those resources certainly are fueling this conflict and this is why the you know you have outside forces and internal internal and external forces really have their hands in the country because of those resources. i think those resources can also be a potential solution and managing the property properly will really help help the country move forward and i say we got this huge huge amounts of resources could

potentially be one of the richest countries in the world sure we saw how the legacy of colonialism and corruption is held helping back but well i mean if you if you going back into history you know we really have to start with the berlin conference we can even go before them but that's that's a good place to start in one thousand nine hundred five in europe in berlin european powers really carved up africa according to resources so so this is where it jumped off. and since then you know it seems in most countries that are that are this blessed with resources you find these these these type of corrupt forces in there trying to profit off of it how did the people. sort of see western intervention. like the u.n. yeah well you know it's tough the u.n. is creating stability in certain ways but i think often when people are kind of

oppressed as much as they are in the congo they can they can turn that anger towards towards these these western forces the humanitarian groups of the united nations. it's extremely complex when we think about potential solutions for the congo it's it's very difficult to for me to imagine a solution coming from the outside to give somebody peace it doesn't make sense to the pieces to organically kind of the obviously the components of the cold supply corruption the balkanization of the military all the armed groups these prevent. the united nations is not going to help solve that humanitarian groups are going to help solve that they're putting band-aids on things so i think to create a lasting peace a lasting solution. it's going to take a reform of the government and building of infrastructure so so education can start flowing into areas that are extremely under-served do you think like you start

seeing even now that the colonial powers the sort of he came in they actually benefit from instability in the country. i mean shadow wars they can create sure i mean the colonial legacy has set the stage for this but but right now you're exactly right there's this foggy shadow of war over the country and it certainly benefits those who are profiteering off of it to have conflict yeah there is the war is is not without reason that they have a vested interest in keeping it going. going underground deputy editor sebastian pack of reporting that well within the past few days the british crown prosecution service revealed that criminal charges the modern slavery offenses of risen by more than a quarter in the past year some two hundred thirty nine indicted. it's in total joining me now is the bishop of darby dr alice to read from a member of britain's committee on the draft board and slavery bill bishop thanks for joining us on going i'm going to why earth as cases of modern slavery possibly

go to three hundred percent of the years under the tories according to figures in britain is probably more than three hundred percent is probably not related simply to under the tories there are three drivers really more and more vulnerable people displaced people across the globe and in our own society people are desperate for chums second factor change of employment practices no longer a personal relationship between employer and employee people are not flexible working hours they want flexible employees so there's plenty of room for agency working and people just to be slipped under the counter kind of thing and then the third reason why it's exploding is that we're also busy looking at our screens and running our own lives we don't notice what's going on and we don't see what's happening some are brothers and sisters we just take it for granted it must be all right but we've got to start looking and saying what's happening and raising

questions about it we were decades of new liberalism in this country which is necessarily individual broken communities how can the church of england play a poet even in noticing in one's own community the sexual slavery of other drives as they were going down the street but we can be a start and we are in my own diocese in darby we are on the church of england through a thing called called the clear initiative the churches can be agencies where we are asking people to take a look at their neighbors if you think of carwashes if you think of nail bars if you think of people in domestic service if you think of people going in night of a high school night down your street instead of just thinking with that life we need think what's going on. are there people there who look downtrodden who don't speak the language who look as though they're kind of under some kind of or forty or oppression but you can see the dangers of that already and i know you helped

draft the actual act the modern slavery act because some would say what is slavery modern slavery in any case given that we have been increasing in our actions emergency departments our hospitals we have hundreds of thousands unable to eat without the help of food banks with by the judge or england why separating trafficking migration from the rest of the way the community always like divided rule between slaves but there's one issue fighting poverty and that's a huge issue we all need to step up to but within poverty slavery is a very smart business practice the people who run it are international gangs and went to three chaps in dobie or in the paper because they've been sent down for trafficking people goes into the sex trade all men into factories we think they're

just three rogue individuals is such a clever business model they're taken out we never get to the big. operation behind trading people over the globe organizing huge illegal immigration it's a very smart business model and what because they are able to recruit people who are easily dominated international gangs you know talking there about big multinational companies are the equivalent of it's the second most profitable trade after drugs in the world what i'm saying is what's the difference between an international world international company perhaps yeah a defacto minorca in this country retailer putting people in zero contract so they couldn't eat without the help and food and risk losing shelter because they have been phoned up as part of the contract on the day but this is a contract just part of hide we define poverty and good employment and the u.n. recognizes that one of the answer to slavery is better dignity it was better employment that trafficking is even worse than that is taking away people's freedom

often take away their passport making sure they don't know the language making sure that they know you know where their family lives and so they become trapped frightened just doing what they want trapped in that way and another way senior academics looking a bonus idea would be slavery even as defined by the united nations with a pretty stern i think this is a deliberate division between in fact they say actually it's an alliance of convergence of anti slavery. people. abolitionists feminism who don't believe in sex work and celebrity humanitarianism there's a kind of convergence of these issues which doesn't really address the fact that many people are defacto slaves who might not even consider themselves but this act stops them from being kids if it's lives well. some of those fine phrases are great for academics who sit in ivory towers and make up the word i'm the victim of people

whose humanity has been smashed out to them they don't even have the luxury of deciding whether to take his ear a paid zero paid job or not which sadly some people can choose to work or not like and send these people come on a promise it will traffic within our own country the promises broken and then their control they control where they live they are just given pocket money they're controlled in who they can mate often this benefit fraud on the back of it in the name bank accounts rope and credit card debt run up and they're just a pawn in somebody else's game now that is a terrible crime of human beings being treated as commodities in a very basic simple way with no option there's a balance to redfern thank you that's over the show but we're back to wednesday when we talk to award winning journalist and filmmaker john pilger for going on the ground season finale until then the dutch by social media will see on wednesday seventy one years since india after millions were killed and displaced by the

british declared independence. but. we have no idea what's a fuse doing on vacation but she will be back on air in september. join me every foes on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see that.

america was never great was founded on the rapes in the murder. nothing changed so we said all response to these situations that we do in the ways. people get shot every day she is just people killing each other blacks are killing

children. so it was just no way that people are going to just sit back and allow children to be shot down law enforcement. this country doesn't work for us it doesn't function for us. this is can't be happening in america we call from the streets we've got to deal with why this is the reason i have to rat like this is the reason.

american far right groups are numbered by a country a protest outside the white house in washington d.c. it comes on the one year anniversary of the deadly you know the right rally in charlottesville. his car into a crowd of protesters. staying stateside a hocking contest in the u.s. reveals that even in your role can interfere with the american election infrastructure and the impact the results. we can call them in your own name if you want to make a living we won the election in. israel's controversial nation states is up for debate jewish citizens claim they face this discrimination while supporters say it

defends israel to. this land is only half of the population and half would be discriminated against well i think that what you just heard is the exact example why we need to you have a person who is not an israeli citizen these bashing my country in israel all citizens are equal under the law. pm here in my. monday august thirteenth welcome to our international my names you can only do our top story a rally by far right groups on white nationalist has been swamped by a country or protest outside the white house in washington d.c. it was held exactly a year after the infamous unite the right rally in charlottesville virginia that's all bitter clashes between the rival groups.

her. car. was. broke a. reddish . so we're here in lafayette park and as you can see we are surrounded by a huge anti-racist demonstration a crowd of thousands is denouncing the twenty four or so white supremacy white nationalists whatever you want to call them that have gathered directly in front of the white house now there are thousands of people here representing a very broad group of organizations that we've got church groups that are out here

black nationalist groups marxists far leftists anarchists we've seen the anti a lot of them assembled actually a lot of anti fun folks assembled wearing gas masks helmets almost as if they're ready for some kind of confrontation now we're also hearing the sound of police helicopters that are flying above however at the moment it appears that no scuffles have broken out we have not heard any reports of injuries very wide variety of causes represented here in front of the white house says thousands of people have come out other not unified around much but when it comes to opposing new klux klan opposing the white nationalists that is one thing that has brought all these people together they will mop and r.t. washington d.c. . then the deadly unrest in charlottesville deepen political divisions in the euro sprite here's a reminder of how events unfolded a warning you may find some of the upcoming images to strike.

terrorism is is the use of violence to incite terror and fear and of course it was terrorism this egregious display of hatred bigotry and violence on many. many sects. there's a twist to the story i guess year after the tragedy some american politicians are not suggesting that moscow will somehow behind the own risk. i sat in

a closed session briefing probably two months ago about charlottesville with the director of the f.b.i. amongst others and asked if russian intermeddling had to do with fomenting the flames of what happened in charlottesville i was told yes it did but he says he got it from an f.b.i. briefing which was not classified now look if he has information if the f b i has information i'd love to hear it so what america but it seems kind of bizarre to me that a congressman who says he's not running for reelection because he's having a personal problem all of a sudden with a couple of months left in his term takes the opportunity on c.n.n. which will do anything to bash trump and to accuse russia on anything you know something that nobody has ever heard of until this point that was his last year well then let's find ways to get to make sure that it's not classified tell us everything you found out so i don't i don't believe that life is information let's see it yeah well we asked people in washington for their thoughts on the claim that

russia could be behind the racial divisions in the u.s. . do you buy in the idea that it's russia's fault that the people having their rally over there is somehow the fault of russia russian bought tacklers facebook yet not even a little and why do you think that's so big in the mainstream media why are they pushing that so hard. that's a good question i don't know i think it kind of it's comforting to hear that this is russia's fault and not something has been wrong with america since the foundation of this country it's nice to say it's russia's call to go and it's trump's fault and that once trump is gone and once you know the elections are more secure and all races never fade away because the russian bots or the russian hackers are no longer influencing people to be racist but that's not true it's just a nice story you can tell yourself say this racism and this is the white supremacy the united states is not the fault of the united states the fault of russia you know whatever else the media is kind of using the russian stuff as a way to. go after the laughs as they're saying all these left wing activists are

being. you know misled by russia or russia is behind it and you know even though there are genuine grievances to be had with you know all sorts of things that in russia plays a minor role if any in you know on the internet do you buy the idea that all this racism and all this division and all these protests are all caused by russia. now i honestly think it's just what i want to highlight is the intersectionality of what happened today like there were a small amount of white supremacists here but there are a lot of people who are coming to counter protest them so i don't blame russia well of course it's just a random stroll pole but they russia did it has been going for some time now and even for hardened russia folds it's getting increasingly harder to swallow. thank us

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thanks . a hucking contest in the u.s. house revealed about it doesn't take a top notch russian computer expert to get into america's election infrastructure it turns out on the eleven year old can do it. reports. learn more about the twenty hacking contest that's what the link says and yes it's from a real website and the contest's real too it's for kids and it's not being held in russia what this is america anyway meet the winner eleven year old you need.

to beat me we can cause in the our own name that reminds me when the election it just took her ten minutes to hack a replica of an election office website in one of the battleground states. these are members of congress they work hard to approve budget grants to sort out election cyber security the one for twenty was three hundred eighty million bucks these are child hackers i mean contestants they tap their keyboards to prove that within minutes america's election systems are a piece of garbage thirty five out of the thirty nine youngsters taking part this year were able to do just that so how come there haven't been any warnings for a grown up specialists well actually there have always been the writing machine is different states and it's extremely easy to get me to focus on this mission so let me show you how quick it is that's a little under two minutes. you don't need any totals to do this.